Introduction: Voices, Words, and African History David William Cohen, Stephan F. Miescher, and Luise White Part 1 Giving Africa a History The Construction of Luo Identity and History Bethwell Allan Ogot Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony Megan Vaughan John Bunyan, His Chair, and a Few Other Relics: Orality, Literacy, and the Limits of Area Studies Isabel Hofmeyr The Dialogue Between Academic and Community History in Nigeria E. J. Alagoa The Birth of the Interview: The Thin and the Fat of It Abdullahi A. Ibrahim Part 2 African Lives Conversations and Lives Corinne A. Kratz The Life Histories of Boakye Yiadom (Akasease Kofi of Abetifi, Kwawu): Exploring the Subjectivity and Voices of a Teacher-Catechist in Colonial Ghana Stephan F. Miescher Lives, Histories, and Sites of Recollection Tamara Giles-Vernick Senegalese Women in Politics: Portrait of Two Female Leaders, Arame Diene and Thioumbe Samb, 1945-1996 Babacar Fall Part 3 African Imaginations Nana Ampadu, the Sung-Tale Metaphor, and Protest Discourse in Contemporary Ghana Kwesi Yankah Voice, Authority, and Memory: The Kiswahili Recordings of Siti binti Saadi Laura Fair In a Nation of White Cars ... One White or A White Car, Becomes a Truth David William Cohen True Stories: Narrative, Event, History, and Blood in the Lake Victoria Basin Luise White
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